The five Reform policies which have been tried before

Plans by Reform to deal with, what it has termed, the “state of emergency” of asylum seekers entering Britain have previously been ruled out by Home Office officials, or dropped due to spending concerns.

As part of a headline-grabbing interview with The Times , Farage touted plans to potentially re-open the Rwanda deal, explore a similar arrangement to Albania, open offshore processing centres in British overseas territories and create tens of thousands of new places in detention centres.

Farage also pledged to remove the UK from several international treaties, including the UN’s refugee and torture conventions, as well as the Council of Europe’s trafficking convention.

The plans amount to some of the most concrete policies Reform has offered so far on immigration issues, but ma